The first exhibition, entitled Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp that inaugurated the temporary exhibition spaces of EMST simultaneously with the Program EMST in the World, is a coproduction of EMST and the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA). The exhibition was inaugurated on October 31, 2016 and will last until February 05, 2017, essentially restarting the temporary […]
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The Artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Matthew Barney, Natalie Yiaxi, Jorge Galindo & Santiago Sierra, Douglas Gordon, Katerina Zacharopoulou, Amar Kanwar, William Kentridge, Phanos Kyriacou, Andreas Lolis, Jenny Marketou, Kostas Bassanos, Shirin Neshat, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Eleni Panouklia, Nikos Papadopoulos, Rena Papaspyrou, Rania Bellou, Pipilotti Rist, Danae Stratou, Maria Tsagkari, Maria Tzanakou, Nari Ward, Maaria […]
The important visual arts festival of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Action Field Kodra 2017, titled “Retrospection” opened on Friday, the 22nd of September 2017, at the Dorms building, in the ex-military camp Kodra. This year’s exhibition was open with the Mayor’s, Mr. Theodosis Mpakoglidis, speech. The festival celebrated 17 years of existence and was a […]
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27 contemporary Greek artists participated in an exhibition organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. The exhibition was inaugurated on 24 September by the Greek Minister of Culture and Sports, Lydia Koniordou, who was a keynote speaker at the 7th Beijing Biennial of […]
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“I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.” Michel de Montaigne Flowers symbolise the opposite of force. Flower power was, in the 1960s, a rejoinder to killing fields. A flower placed in the barrel of a gun renders the weapon benign. Blooms are the […]
The Municipality of Elefsina, Eleusis 2020-2023 Cultural Capital of Europe and the P.A.K.P.A.A.’s Department of Culture jointly hosted Danae Stratou’s exhibition Elements at the ‘Leonidas Kanellopoulos’ Cultural Centre in Eleusis. Elements records and documents aspects of Danae Stratou’s installation Upon the Earth Under the Clouds (currently on show at the Eleusis Old Oil Mill) in […]
The work was created for, and presented in the Greek Pavilion, at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. It is comprised of a perpendicular video projection which only becomes visible through the openings of 936 square sectioned aluminium tubes (10cm X 10cm X 3.30m), placed next to and above each other, creating a cube which […]
Under the subtitle Communications, the first exhibition of the Synopsis series with which the operation of the EMST was inaugurated, tried to investigate through different artistic projects by eight remarkable Greek artists of the younger generation who live and work in or abroad, the new communicative condition which is being formed within the frame of […]
Participation with the site specific installation Earth Cubes. The work was inspired and created on site in Lido-Venice for the outdoor international exhibition OPEN 2000. Nine earth cubes, 2m X 2m each, were created on a strip of land covering an area of 42m in length. Escalating in elevation, starting from -30cm and ending up +30cm from […]
“Deep within the ground there are caverns and tunnels and ways for the sacred energy to travel. Earth inhales and exhales just as we do; sacred life energy moves within her body as it does in ours.” Hopi Indians This work was originally installed and shown at an old warehouse in Athens, near the docks […]
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